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Originally entitled Osoba i Czyn and published in Poland in 1969, The Acting Person is the official English translation and has been thoroughly edited and revised with the collaboration of the author. The book stresses that man must ceaselessly unravel his mysteries and strive for a new and more mature expression of his nature. The author sees this expression as an emphasis on the significance of the individual living in community and on the person in the process of performing an action. The author states in his preface that he has tried to face the major issues concerning life, nature, and the existence of man directly as they present themselves to man in his struggles to survive while maintaining the dignity of a human being, but who is torn apart between his all too limited condition and his highest aspirations to set himself free. --From publisher's description.Read more...

"Translated and revised from the 1969 Polish edition, Osoba i czyn.""This definitive text of the work established in collaboration with the author by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka."Includes indexes.Includes index.

Description:

xxiii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Consciousness and efficacy. The acting person in the aspect of consciousness ; An analysis of efficacy in the light of human dynamism --
The transcendence of the person in the action. The personal structure of self-determination ; Self-determination and fulfillment --
The integration of the person in the action. Integration and the soma ; Personal integration and the psyche --
Participation. Intersubjectivity by participation.

Abstract:

Originally entitled "Osoba i Czyn" and published in Poland in 1969, this English translation stresses that Man must ceaselessly unravel his mysteries and strive for a new and more mature expression of his nature. It is a reversal of the post-Cartesian attitude toward Man in that it characterises him as the person in action.Read more...

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Publisher Synopsis

From the Reviews: "The Acting Person represents a major effort to rethink the human reality in the face of the many frozen assumptions which dominate contemporary thought." (Professor Benjamin Schwartz, Harvard University) "This powerful phenomenological study will have lasting impact on those concerned with the contemporary conception of Man." (Professor Joseph Kockelmans, Pennsylvania State University) "A masterly critical edition ... its publication is an historical event" (Professor Kamil Dziewanowski, Boson State University)Read more...